Well done everybody, finishers and non-finishers alike – it’s a bit of a humdinger isn’t it?
I too got round without too many problems; my feet ache this morning but that’s probably to be expected. My legs feel fine though, no blisters to report either (all down to my trusty Walsh fell running booties), no aching joints and only the minimal of chaffage to the er… derriere.
Last year I think I was taken along a much better line from Middle Tongue to the final checkpoint before Cray but this year, with nobody else to guide me other than Rachel my trusty running partner (who couldn’t navigate her way out of a wet paper bag and who’s ‘only £1.99 at Aldi’ compass couldn’t even be turned), we just followed other runners along a fence line…. that went on remorselessly for frigging ages; even when we could see the light of the checkpoint ahead, it still took us several (fellsman) years to reach it! Other than that though I’m not sure we made too many navigational errors.
Oh and congratulations to the wiseguy who positioned the wall ladder over the completely wrong wall at the top of the descent into Kingsdale
The chill wind only caused me problems when we stopped at the checkpoints and at Park Rash, just before Great Whernside, with the tent opening perfectly positioned to let the howling wind in full on, I nire on froze to death. That said we had teamed up with two excellent compadres at Cray (Alan and the super fit 67 year old Richy) and I soon got warm again once we started hacking up Great Whernside.
Rachel also cocked things up right from the start by whizzing up Ingleborough like it was a 'to the top and back' fell race – next time I need to run with somebody with a degree of intelligence
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